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A card which may well turn the best hand into trash. If you have Tc-8c and the flop comes Qd- Jd-9s, you almost assuredly have the best hand. However, a turn card of Td would be very scary because it would almost guarantee that you are now beaten.
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| Secondary Payoff |
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In many cases we are drawing with the hopes of making a particular big payoff, but much of the EV of the play comes from smaller payoffs when we miss the big one. For example, you might draw two cards to a Royal Flush but end up with a high pair, two pair, three-of-a-kind, a straight or a flush, all of which we would call secondary payoffs.
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| Sequential Royal Flush |
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A Royal Flush in order, either left-to-right or right-to-left like 10h-Jh-Qh-Kh-Ah. Some Video Poker Machines have a separate large Jackpot for one of these. You will get one of these once in about two and a half million hands, so most of us will never get one. Still, it's possible, and a lot more likely than winning the lottery.
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| Short Run |
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A limited amount of time when probability theory will be marked by streaks or fluctuations.
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| Short Stack |
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A number of chips that is not very many compared to the other players at the table. If you have $10 in front of you, and everybody else at the table has over $100, you are playing on a short stack.
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| Slow Play |
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To play a strong hand weakly so more players will stay in the pot.
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| Spill |
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When you win a hand that would put you over 1,000 credits, most video poker machines don't add to your credits. Instead they start spilling quarters into the hopper to pay off that hand.
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| Straight |
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Five cards not in the same suit in an unbroken sequence like 10h-Js-Qs-Kh-Ah.
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| Straight Flush |
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Five cards in the same suit in an unbroken sequence like 4h-5h-6h-7h-8h.
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| Strategy |
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A pattern or method for playing the hands.
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| Strategy Card |
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A Strategy Card is a Strategy Table printed on a card. It's a good idea to have a strategy card with you while playing. You can buy strategy cards for most any available video poker game on the Internet.
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| Strategy Table |
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A Strategy Table is a list of the hands you might be dealt in decreasing order of Average Payback. If you can play a hand in two or more different ways, then you pick the highest in the strategy table - the one with the highest Average Payback.
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| Suit |
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In a poker deck, each card that is not a wild card is in one of the four suits: Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts or Spades.
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